Computational studies on the decarboxylation of 2-(1-carboxy-1-hydroxyethyl)-3,4-dimethylthiazolium dipolar ion, an analog of the complex of pyruvic acid and coenzyme of the pyruvate decarboxylase.

abstract：:Endothelial cells line the inside of all blood vessels forming a structurally and functionally highly heterogenous population of cells. Here we describe the application of the differential RNA display technique to the analysis of the heterogeneity of endothelial cells. Multiple fragment cDNAs from quiescent resting an...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kozian DH,Augustin HG

更新日期：1995-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus of Hsp70 interacting protein (CHIP) is being considered to be a cellular quality control E3 ubiquitin ligase because of its ability to degrade misfolded proteins in association with heat shock chaperones. The neuroprotective role of CHIP also has been implicated in several familial neurodegenerative dis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dikshit P,Jana NR

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular cholesterol transfer to mitochondria, a bottleneck of adrenal and gonadal steroidogenesis, relies on the functioning of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR, STARD1), for which many disease-associated mutations have been described. Despite significant progress in the field, the exact mechanis...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sluchanko NN,Tugaeva KV,Maksimov EG

更新日期：2017-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of cancer stem cells, in both hematopoietic and solid malignancies, has been recently linked to their pathogenesis. We aimed to identify the characteristics and stem-like properties of sphere-colony forming cells in rat osteosarcoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma cell lines. The results showed that bo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fujii H,Honoki K,Tsujiuchi T,Kido A,Yoshitani K,Mori T,Takakura Y

更新日期：2007-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, pigments are made by melanocytes within a specialized organelle, the melanosome. Mature, pigment-laden melanosomes are then transferred to keratinocytes to drive the visible pigmentation of the animal's hair and skin. The dilute suppressor (dsu) locus encodes an extragenic suppressor of the pigmentation de...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wu XS,Martina JA,Hammer JA 3rd

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:SHPS-1 (SHP substrate-1) is a glycosylated receptor-like protein with three immunoglobulin-like domains in its extracellular region and four YXX(L/V/I) motifs, potential tyrosine phosphorylation and SRC homology 2 (SH2) domain binding sites, in its cytoplasmic region. Various mitogens and cell adhesion induce tyrosine...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yamao T,Matozaki T,Amano K,Matsuda Y,Takahashi N,Ochi F,Fujioka Y,Kasuga M

更新日期：1997-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) promote cellular proliferation through interaction with FGF-2. To examine the role of cellular specificity of HSPG in FGF-2 function, a recombinant soluble isoform of CD44 (rsCD44v3,8-10) was expressed in various cell types; 293 T fibroblasts, the epithelial carcinoma cell lines A...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fiore MM

更新日期：2001-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of joint disease. The development of inflammation have been considered to play a key role during the progression of OA. Regulatory pathways are known to play crucial roles in many pathogenic processes. Thus, deciphering these risk regulatory pathways is critical for elucidat...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Song Z,Zhang C,He L,Sui Y,Lin X,Pan J

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in collagen II are associated with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, a group of heritable diseases whose common features include aberrations of skeletal growth. The mechanisms through which mutations in collagen II affect the cartilaginous tissues are complex and include both intracellular and extracellular proc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Gawron K,Jensen DA,Steplewski A,Fertala A

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an effort to identify genes potentially involved in the Down Syndrome pathogenesis, in this paper we report the identification and characterization of a new human gene (named SH3BGRL), which shows a high homology to the SH3BGR gene, previously mapped to the Down Syndrome region of chromosome 21. The SH3BGRL...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Egeo A,Mazzocco M,Arrigo P,Vidal-Taboada JM,Oliva R,Pirola B,Giglio S,Rasore-Quartino A,Scartezzini P

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The major active protein phosphatase present in a rabbit skeletal muscle extract is associated with the glycogen particle and migrates in sucrose density gradient centrifugation as a Mr = 70,000 protein and contains modulator activity. Addition of extra modulator protein causes a time- and concentration-dependent conv...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Vandenheede JR,Yang SD,Merlevede W

更新日期：1983-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Quite extraordinarily molybdenum is an essential element in life for the uptake of nitrogen from both nitrogen gas and nitrate, yet it is a relatively rare heavy trace element. It also functions in a few extremely important oxygen-atom transfer reactions at low redox potential. This review poses the question "Why does...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Williams RJ,Fraústo da Silva JJ

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies sought to determine the intracellular mechanisms underlying muscarinic receptor stimulated phasic contractions of myometrial smooth muscle. Utilizing cytosolic calcium imaging studies with Fura-2 loaded muscle strips, along with in vitro isometric contraction studies, we have demonstrated that phasic myo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Phillippe M,Basa A

更新日期：1997-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1/ABCC1) is a 190kDa member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of transmembrane transporters that is clinically relevant for its ability to confer multidrug resistance by actively effluxing anticancer drugs. Knowledge of the atomic structure of MRP1 is needed to elucidate ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： DeGorter MK,Conseil G,Deeley RG,Campbell RL,Cole SP

更新日期：2008-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia cells respond to toxic stimuli by undergoing a form of programmed cell death known as apoptosis. However, the signaling events responsible for the execution of this form of death are poorly understood. Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascades are involved in the cellular response to extracel...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Stadheim TA,Kucera GL

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we used LLC-PK1 cells, a porcine renal proximal tubular cell line, to investigate whether PI3 kinase activation was involved in the anti-apoptotic effect of ouabain, a specific inhibitor of Na,K-ATPase. Apoptosis was induced by actinomycin D (Act D, 5 microM) and assessed by appearance of hypodipl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Zhou X,Jiang G,Zhao A,Bondeva T,Hirszel P,Balla T

更新日期：2001-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of endothelin-1 in the cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes was investigated. Studies on the cultured cardiac myocytes with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction followed by Southern hybridization indicated that mRNA of ET-1(preproET-1 mRNA) was expressed by cardiac myocytes. ET-1 polypeptide wa...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Suzuki T,Kumazaki T,Mitsui Y

更新日期：1993-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes that hybridize to the cDNA for alcohol-inducible cytochrome P-450 form 3a (P-450ALC) have been isolated from a rabbit genomic library and characterized by restriction mapping, hybridization, and partial sequence analysis. The genes show extensive sequence similarity as judged by hybridization at high stringe...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Khani SC,Porter TD,Coon MJ

更新日期：1988-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the function of miR-183 in renal cancer cells and the mechanisms miR-183 regulates this process. In this study, level of miR-183 in clinical renal cancer specimens was detected by quantitative real-time PCR. miR-183 was up- and down-regulated in two renal cancer cell lines ACHN...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Qiu M,Liu L,Chen L,Tan G,Liang Z,Wang K,Liu J,Chen H

更新日期：2014-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction was approached by a novel method, covalent 14C-labeling. Intra- and intermolecular protein interactions during contractile activity are reflected by changed reactivity of protein side chains; these can be detected by reagents which readily permeate through the muscl...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Bárány K,Polyák E,Bárány M

更新日期：1992-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium is a toxic metal present in the environment and its inhalation can lead to pulmonary disease such as lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These lung diseases are characterized by chronic inflammation. Here we show that exposure of human airway epithelial cells to cadmium promotes a polarized ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Rennolds J,Malireddy S,Hassan F,Tridandapani S,Parinandi N,Boyaka PN,Cormet-Boyaka E

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Various subclasses of messenger ribonucleoprotein particles were prepared from free cytoplasmic and polysome fractions of rat liver on the basis of the homopolymeric content of the constituent RNA's. Two major proteins were evident in the free cytoplasmic preparations: the poly(A)-binding protein was the major constit...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ford G,Nichols JL

更新日期：1984-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A Cl- channel protein of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was purified by assaying the channel activity in a planar lipid bilayer system. The light fraction of SR vesicles was solubilized in CHAPS and fractioned by anion exchange, gel filtration, and affinity chromatography with concanavalin A. All fractions in each step w...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ide T,Sakamoto H,Morita T,Taguchi T,Kasai M

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cisplatin-induced ototoxicity affects a high percentage of new cancer patients worldwide. The detailed mechanism of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity is not completely understood. We investigated whether rapamycin could protect rats from cisplatin-induced ototoxicity. METHODS:Forty-eight male Wistar rats were r...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Fang B,Xiao H

更新日期：2014-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examined the influence on AlF4- and GTP gamma S on amylase secretion from alpha toxin permeabilized pancreatic acini. AlF4- only activates heterotrimeric G-proteins, whereas GTP gamma S activates both small ras-like GTP-binding proteins and heterotrimeric G-proteins (Kahn, R. A., J. Biol. Chem., 266, ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Padfield PJ,Panesar N

更新日期：1998-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of vitamin A on the expression of apoAI and CIII genes in intact rats was studied. In vitamin A-deficient rats, the hepatic level of apoAI mRNA was increased and enhanced by an oral administration of excess retinoic acid(RA). A similar administration to normal rats caused an increase in the apoAI mRNA level...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Nagasaki A,Kikuchi T,Kurata K,Masushige S,Hasegawa T,Kato S

更新日期：1994-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Asialofetuin-tacked liposomes (AF-liposomes) encapsulating interferon (IFN)-gamma were bound and internalized into a human hepatoma cell line, HepG2 cells, selectively through asialoglycoprotein receptor, but not non-tacked liposomes (N-liposomes). AF-liposomal IFN-gamma was more effective for inhibition of viral DNA ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ishihara H,Hayashi Y,Hara T,Aramaki Y,Tsuchiya S,Koike K

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Although caffeine alters sleep in many animals, whether or not it affects mammalian circadian clocks remains unknown. Here, we found that incubating cultured mammalian cell lines, human osteosarcoma U2OS cells and mouse fibroblast NIH3T3 cells, with caffeine lengthened the period of circadian rhythms. Adding caffeine ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oike H,Kobori M,Suzuki T,Ishida N

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYP enzymes) catalyse the initial step in biotransformation of xenobiotics like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The marine polychaete Nereis virens has a high capacity for biotransformation of PAHs. In the present study, the complete cDNA sequences of two novel CYP genes isolated from...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jørgensen A,Rasmussen LJ,Andersen O

更新日期：2005-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent environmental sampling around a landfill site in the UK demonstrated that unidentified xenoestrogens were present at higher levels than control sites; that these xenoestrogens were capable of super-activating (resisting ligand-dependent antagonism) the murine variant 2 ERβ and that the ionic liquid 1-octyl-3-me...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Leitch AC,Lakey AF,Hotham WE,Agius L,Kass GEN,Blain PG,Wright MC

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00